Printing the PANTONE Color chart

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1 Printing the PANTONE Color chart Note Do not use any color corrections in a driver, or with a downloadable utility file, or on the printer s front panel, when printing the PANTONE color chart or when printing PANTONE Colors from an application. Using any color correction will cause PANTONE Colors to print incorrectly. The PANTONE-Tek Phaser 340 (PANT340.PS) file prints a PANTONE Color sampler chart (about 46 pages in length). Use the chart to select colors within an application that allows you to specify PANTONE Colors. Directions for Macintosh Directions for PC/Workstations

2 Macintosh users 1. Decompress the Phaser 340 Samplers.sea and the Phaser 340 Utilities.sea archive files from the Macintosh Driver and Printer Utilities diskette to your computer s hard disk. 2. Select the appropriate printer in the Chooser. 3. Make sure no color corrections are selected: If you are using the printer s front panel: Select the None option in the TekColor Corrections menu. If you need to download a utility file: a. Locate the LaserWriter Utility in the folder on your hard disk containing decompressed utility files. b. Double click the LaserWriter Utility icon to start the application. c. Choose Download PostScript File from the Utilities menu. d. Select the No Color Correction file from the list, then click Open. e. At the prompt Save PostScript output as: you are asked for a file name for saving printer output. Use either the default name given in the edit box or type a new name. Click Save to send the file to the printer. f. If no output is returned by the printer, the LaserWriter Utility displays a dialog box. Click OK in the box to continue.

3 4. To print the chart, do the following: a. Locate the LaserWriter Utility in the folder on your hard disk containing decompressed files. Double-click the LaserWriter Utility icon to start the application. b. Select Download PostScript File from the Utilities menu. c. Select the PANTONE-Tek Phaser 340 file, and click Open. d. At the prompt Save PostScript output as: you are asked for a file name for saving printer output. Use the default name given in the edit box or type in a new name. Then click Save to send the file to the printer. e. If no output is returned by the printer, the LaserWriter Utility displays a dialog box. Click OK in the box to continue. 5. Select PANTONE Colors within an application using the colors on the chart. 6. Print your document using one of the following methods: If you are printing from a Tektronix driver: Print your document with the None option selected. Any other color correction selection in the driver will cause the PANTONE Colors to print differently. If you are not using a Tektronix driver: Print your document with the No Color Correction (NOCORECT.PS) utility file downloaded to the printer, or with the None option selected in the TekColor Correction menu on the printer s front panel.

4 PC and workstation users 1. Copy the PANT340.PS sampler file from SAMPLERS directory on the Windows 3.1 Driver and Printer Utilities diskette onto your computer s hard disk. You may want to place this file in a Utilities directory. Or, you can print this file directly from the diskette. 2. Make sure no color corrections are selected: If you are using the printer s front panel: Select the None option in the TekColor Corrections menu. If you need to download a utility file: PC users: Use the DOS COPY command, or the Copy command in Windows File Manager, to send the NOCORECT.PS file to the printer. Workstation users: Send the NOCORECT.PS file to the printer as you would any PostScript file. 3. Print the PANTONE Color chart using one of the following methods: PC users: Use the DOS COPY command, or the Copy command in Windows File Manager, to send the file to the printer. Workstation users: Send the file to the printer as you would any PostScript file. 4. Select PANTONE Colors within an application using the colors on the chart.

5 5. Print your document using one of the following methods: If you are printing from a Tektronix driver: Print your document with the None option selected. Any other color correction selection in the driver will cause the PANTONE Colors to print differently. If you are not using a Tektronix driver: Print your document with the No Color Correction (NOCORECT.PS) utility file downloaded to the printer, or with the None option selected in the TekColor Correction menu on the printer s front panel. Source: C6